8 Apr 2014

Early settler Albert James Allom

From Afternoons, 2:22 pm on 8 April 2014

Eighty-year-old Barrie Allom often cleaned up the essay writing competitions at school but it took him sixty years to become a published author. He's now just released his third book, 'Dear Tyrant", a biography of his great-grandfather Albert James Allom, an early settler who came to New Zealand in 1842.

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